Tag: File hosting
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Scottish Mashups
Discover the best mashups from Scotland in “O Flower of Mashups” by DJ Firth. Featuring Scottish artists like Proclaimers and Lewis Capaldi.
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Dropping Dropbox Or How I Learned To Hate The Cloud
Well not entirely, but I’ve been switching backups and data away from Dropbox for a while, given what Edward Snowden said, and the fact that Condi ‘Spy on you’ Rice is now on the board. Problem with Dropbox is many-fold, like iCloud and others there isn’t any encryption, and you just have to trust that…
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Watching Apple & Scotland with Russell Brand
Amazing that Apple has so much money offshore it could end world poverty in a heartbeat (monitor)…and I find it odd the conversation about the iCloud hacks has avoided talking about NSA and spying implications for cloud storage (which Russell isn’t interested in covering, which I understand as it’s a bit of a sideshow issue…
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Pandora, Spotify, the new devil?
Responding to this Stereogum article ‘Deconstructing: Pandora, Spotify, Piracy, And Getting Artists Paid‘ I thought I’d repost it here: Can we look at that specific example and devise ways to make piracy less convenient for fans and less profitable for distributors, because such reform is better for our cultural health over the short-, medium-, and…
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Da Chip – 8Bit Rules The Nation?
And following the 8-bit madness (I was planning a 8-bit show a while back, kind of wished I’d done it now, ahh that’s me, forever behind/in front of the curve, never in sync 🙁 ) on NME they posted about this Daft Punk 8-bit covers collective called Da Chip, and my robotic ears pricked up:…
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Megaupload gets a better song, WW3 doesn’t happen (yet)
I’m sure most people have been haunted by that Megggaaa MEgaaaUpploaddd… song that reportedly cost 3 million (!!! Was it extra for a decent tune? Apparently Kim dotCom is releasing an album? Not sure how he’d do that from prison, then again rappers have managed it in the past…) but Dan Bull comes up trumps…